infinity

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The quality or condition of being infinite.

n. Unbounded space, time, or quantity.

n. An indefinitely large number or amount.

n. Mathematics The limit that a function ∫ is said to approach at x = a when ∫(x) is larger than any preassigned number for all x sufficiently near a.

n. A range in relation to an optical system, such as a camera lens, representing distances great enough that light rays reflected from objects within the range may be regarded as parallel.

n. A distance setting, as on a camera, beyond which the entire field is in focus.

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n. Limitlessness, unlimitedness, something which is growing without limits or bounds.

n. A number that has an infinite numerical value that cannot be counted.

n. A number which is very large compared to some characteristic number. For example, in optics, an object which is much further away than the focal length of a lens is said to be "at infinity", as the distance of the image from the lens varies very little as the distance increases further.

n. The symbol ∞.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

Etymologies

Examples

So what I’m wondering is, does this mean that from the point of view of Schwarzschild coordinates, the object is behaving like a white hole from Schwarzschild time - infinity to 0, and then behaving like a black hole from Schwarzschild time 0 to +infinity?

While Dad hid in the back of the house all night, I laid awake on the living room couch next to the hospital bed, like summers when I was a kid and used to float on my back in the pool, trying to make sense of stars, and the uneasy feeling I got from the word infinity.

All the different stories and opinions gathered together here glance off of one another like a hall of mirrors, but the figure reflected into infinity is that of the woman who continues to define herself more through her relationships than through her work.